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If
the history of media is the history of a competition, it begins with an
advantage. Poets discovered collage at a time when photographers still
needed hours to develop a single image.

It is as if written imagery
anticipated film imagery and together the two arts enjoy exploiting the
possibilities and addictions of spectacle. Storyboards were
invented, and later came radio drama.

Multimedia plays with video,
performance and installation, created by painters
and musicians, observed sometimes by poets.

The videoclip, a medium that is
dominated by its editing rhythms, has overtaken everything. In spite of
this, spoken art has resisted its influence. It seems that poetry refuses
to have its stamina diminished by the flighty aesthetics of new media. But
for me, this short form is worth a try. Especially since curtness has
proven sufficient on the other side of the world in the Japanese haiku.
Haiku are simple sentences. Observations in which almost nothing happens.
Only a frog jumping into a pond. A haiku means nothing, and yet it works.

Between the nothingness of
Zen-speech and the hysterical rhythms of videoclips, a form is developing
that is worth seeing. With digitizing, the Middle
Ages of the Literature–Clip has begun.